The old man looked placidly from one to the other for a moment, and then suddenly spoke in a cracked and… — F.Scott Fitzgerald

The old man looked placidly from one to the other for a moment, and then suddenly spoke in a cracked and ancient voice. "Are you my father?" he demanded. ..."Because if you are," went on the old man querulously, "I wish you'd get me out of this place—or, at least, get them to put a comfortable rocker in here,"

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